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Where have all the Japanese tourists gone?
Is the Japanese tourist, for so long in good numbers a welcome and reliable fixture at our most famous tourist…
Tommy Robinson and the truth about jail beards
When Tommy Robinson walked out of prison this week, he was unrecognisable. The far-right activist, who was jailed for contempt…
What’s wrong with using Xenon to climb Everest?
Reaching the top of the world and returning to London within a week without so much as stopping for a…
Britain needs to reindustrialise
In recent years, governments looking for good news on growth have sounded increasingly desperate, like a doctor looking for signs…
Can Scotland learn to love Farage?
There’s not much that’s green in Larkhall, Scotland. So staunchly Protestant unionist is the ex-mining town in South Lanarkshire that…
Israel is going too far
I have kept my silence on the Middle East for ten years. I left Israel in 2015, after five years…
Why shouldn’t vegans be catered for in an apocalypse?
You know you’ve arrived when professors start thinking about how to look after you during a major emergency. As a…
Did No. 10 clear Lord Hermer’s ‘Nazi jibe’ speech?
Another day, another bit of bad press for the Labour party. Attorney General Lord Hermer sparked outrage when he compared…
Trump bids Elon ‘the DoGEfather’ farewell
Sporting a black eye and a shirt with the words “The DoGE Father” on the chest, Elon Musk joined President…
I Dream of Lamu
An hour after the propeller plane lifts away from Wilson, Nairobi’s regional airport, it is arching over the blues and…
Melania Trump is phoning it in
There’s something admirable about Melania Trump’s commitment to doing absolutely nothing. While America obsesses over her husband’s latest provocations, the…
Dan Patrick’s war on weed gummies could endanger Texas Republicans
In a press conference that veered into awkward sketch comedy in Austin, Texas, yesterday, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick railed at…
Why Gen Z is converting to Catholicism
Both of my parents are Jewish, as were theirs, going as far back as anybody remembers – probably to Abraham.…
Why do police accept criminal drug use?
Another day, another sign of the British state’s acceptance of criminality. This time it’s the news that almost half of people caught…
It’s the last chance for levelling up
‘The policymakers that live in London and stuff, they don’t really care about a small town like Rochdale. I just…
Lord Hermer is preposterously wrong about international law
Lord Hermer KC has done it again. Delivering RUSI’s annual security lecture this week, the Attorney General set out to…
How can France ban outdoor smoking?
Faced with a cost-of-living crisis, rising delinquency, failing public services, and riots in the suburbs, the French government has finally…
The real reason why academics write in gobbledygook
Why can’t academics write properly? Why can’t they express themselves in language that normal people can understand? These are questions…
Has Serbia really fallen foul of Moscow?
Is it getting harder for Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić to maintain his balancing act between Moscow and the West? Why…
Hermer admits Nazi comments were ‘clumsy’
As if the Attorney General hadn’t proven his ability for conjuring up negative headlines enough, Lord Hermer took it upon…
The growing militancy of the BMA
To understand what’s really going on with the latest British Medical Association strike threat – it is currently balloting 50,000…
Britain’s Gulf trade deal is not the place for virtue signalling
Rachel Reeves announced that a trade deal with the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) – in other words, Saudi Arabia and…
Lord Hermer’s ‘Nazi jibe’ at Reform won’t work
It is an axiom of political debate that once you compare your opponents to Hitler’s Nazis you have definitely lost…
Starmer’s welfare cuts are nothing like ‘Tory austerity’
Keir Starmer has already folded on the winter fuel payment, promising a partial reversal of the policy by reinstating it…
Labour ministers averaging a union meeting a day
Whatever happened to that £22bn black hole, eh? As yet more pay rises are dolled out to workers across the country…
